Otylia

My vote for Lynch 

Love the basing - especially the added blood spatter on Graves'.  I see the oily effect you described on the illuminated more than I can on Huggy, but I'm sure it's clearer in person. Good luck at the event!

Your work is just flawless no matter how close you zoom in on the model.  And the soft shading transitions on pandora and baby kade are unbelievable!

Each pic is just more amazing than the last.

It was Dreamer and Collodi I was primarily thinking about.  I could see the cobblestone/city street working for them, but I was trying to think of something more.... Unnatural. 

Not so much a bug, persay, more of a suggestion.  But the mouse-over zoom on the Kings of artifice, Showdown:Icon, World needs a jetpack unicorn, evil baby orphanage, and puppet wars product pages doesn't zoom, it just slides the image side to side on the page (somewhat strangely) - might be better disabled if no higher resolution image is available. 

Wow.  I have never really understood or been a fan of the translucent models and haven't been impressed by any partially painted translucents I've seen.  Your treatment of them is just perfect!!  Clearly shows a mastery of the painting media to have come up with the idea and implemented it so well.

And your glass effects on the wizard... mind blowing.

Glad I stumbled across your thread, can't wait to see more.

I was wondering if anyone had any good resources, pics, or suggestions for quarantine zone or neverborn-themed terrain?

I see a lot of people do great things with neverborn basing, but haven't seen much terrain that's particularly stylized for them.  

Not exactly what you're asking about, but  this thread had the chronology of the fluff in the chronicles and books.

Can I step in with a Lynch question?

Everyone seems to be unanimously suggesting Beckoners as the first thing to add to the crew box. Are they that much better than depleted? Especially if you are going for more thematic/brilliance game play?

Hi!  Mind if I follow along  

I saw your beginner question post and I'm also deciding between Pandora and Lynch.  And I'm also in the middle of painting up some old GW dwarves for a buddy's bloodbowl team to brush up on my skills.  I'd say I love painting, and am working on getting to the point where I love the results lol.  I think your painting skills are pretty impressive!  Great use of highlights throughout and very solid details on each model - something I think that's easily skipped over in big squads like warhammer.  I'm very interested to see what else you put out (in Malifaux, or I'm always interested in seeing other interesting models)... and the approach you end up taking on your lynch crew if you go that route  

Mine means "Fortunate heroine"... and in general I can use all the luck I can get.

I think the mature nephilim might be my favorite, and they're all incredibly well done.

You really get a sense that these things are growing out of him... almost looking like blood vessels across the shoulders.  Keep up the amazing work!  Can't wait to see some paint on them.

Ooh, those gravewailers aren't half bad.

And the scale is bit off but these might make passable stitched.

https://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/Dark%20Heaven%20Legends/latest/03697

Any proxy suggestions for Stitched ones or insidious madness (besides pink horrors)? Or even just mini games in general to check for more monstery kind of proxies?

Saying to take Pandora and Lynch and then going on about how amazing Lilith is, is a little cruel.  Just wanted to point that out

After rereading and rethinking.... I'm down to Lynch, Lilith, and Pandora (yep she got added back in)... with strong plans to grab either Collodi and/or Dreamer when their crews are more available.

Part of the problem is there are the crews I want to play, and the crews I want to paint (Dreamer, Collodi, Pandora, Viktoria, Misaki, Kirai).  So that's why Pandora came back up.

Think I might take it to VASSAL to decide from here.

 

Lilith - Runs around, hits things, has synergy with models that run around and also hit things. Blocking tricks with line of sight and placement. Good to start with.

This is what stops me from loving her.   With so many awesome dynamics in the game (card control, summoning, manipulating other models and markers).  I don't know how thrilled I am to mainly just run around and hit things.  Grow is pretty neat, but I worry it won't have much of an impact in smaller games.

Thank you all for your feedback!  Even if you basically all told me not to sweat it because eventually I'll buy them all lol.  ResserRob, I laughed hysterically at your response.

I've managed to come up with a top five... with five runner ups... and an honorable mention.  

Top 5, In no particular order: Lilith, Zoraida, Dreamer, Collodi, Leveticus

Runner ups: Marcus, Colette, Kaeris, Ironsides, Lynch

Honorable mention: The Gremlins.  I love them all, but they just don't feel like a good first choice to me.  And a lot of the outcasts are awesome but I'm trying to be good.

Also, the person I'll be playing the most is leaning towards Nicodem (or at least some summon heavy army).  Does that/should that impact which crew I start with?  Any more feedback based on the crews I'm most leaning towards? 

So I'm new to the world of Malifaux, and still combing through rule book and trying to select a crew.  Before I looked at actual game play I planned on going with Neverborn, and probably Pandora or Lucius.... Just going by models and fluff/character.

However, now that I'm reading through the rule book and the abilities/game play of the all the characters... I'm in trouble.  

How do you choose??

In the end it turns out I'm not a big fan of Pandora's game play dynamics... But I am a big fan of SO MANY other characters.

Hoffman, McMourning, Ramos, Marcus, Lilith, Zoraida, Dreamer, Collodi, Lynch, Viktoria... 

And I haven't even finished reading over the Outcasts, Ten Thunders, Gremlins, or wave 2 Ressers!  I could possibly whittle down a few more just based on models (maybe just by one or two) - but they're all pretty awesome.  So I was wondering how other people out there figured out what crew to start with

Very very kewl!  You really have some amazing skills and a great eye.

And something about it makes the facial expression look less like a battle cry and more like a scream and agony from these things streaming out of his back.

I think that is really cool. One thing that would make that even more awesome in my eyes was if she had a long hair. Now she is a bit too generic demon head.

I second this idea!  I think it'll pull together really nicely with the cape mods, help her look more feminine, and you might even be able to use it to cover up some of the cowl damage.

Beautiful work so far - can't wait to see more.

I think I'm leaning more to the neverborn side because I like the idea of fighting people with creepy babies/teddy bears/puppets. But I also think that fighting with a bunch of drunk goblins is going to be hilarious. 

I'm new to Malifaux as well and also debating between neverborn and goblins for this exact same reasons (and also leaning towards neverborn).  Let me know what you thoughts as you get into game play with both of them!

I just wanted to pop back in to say I think I'm in love with the P3 paints!

I broke them out yesterday and I was amazed how smooth they were.  To me citadel paints require so much watering down and still feel a bit sluggish across the model.  The P3 paints (or at least the very few colors I used last night) required a lot less thinning and went on so smoothly!   

I am having one homemade wet pallet issue I was wondering if you guys could help with.  The parchment paper doesn't seem to like to stay wet/flat.  I went with a paper towel and sponge method, and they're both quite wet.  And the parchment paper was (a little) damp at first, but then started curling up and drying.  Any idea what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks for the warm welcomes, the Walter White meme, and the fluff teaser!!  

Looking forward to getting into things more and more...

And in that vein - Can anyone tell me a bit about VASSAL?  I've seen some references around the threads but I don't know much about it.

Hi Everyone - Thought I'd throw in a formal introduction

Years ago, I used to do some GW gaming - but really I was most interested in it for the painting and eventually fell out of the hobby all together.  Recently I decided I really wanted to get back into painting minis, but didn't want to paint 20 of the same guy at a time.  So I started looking around at skirmish level games and loved what I saw in Malifaux - INCREDIBLE minis, addictive fluff, and a pretty novel game system.

So here I am, getting to know the community and the gameplay, catching up on fluff, deciding on a master (I was thinking Pandora/Neverborn, but the more I read the more characters I fall in love with... McMourning, Lucius, Gremlins....), and brushing the cobwebs off my painting skills with some old bloodbowl characters a buddy of mine had.  Oh - and being incredibly incredibly inspired by some of the incredible talents I've seen on the boards already!